“Though some readers might ponder what criteria we should use when
prioritising what harms to reduce and how, and if and when intentional
harms by ‘conscious opponents’ should be treated differently in
law and by enforcement, this Handbook of Social Harm is an important
exploration of a range of human, non-human and environmental harms,
taking readers well beyond the conventional boundaries of criminology.”
—Michael Levi, Professor of Criminology, Cardiff University, UK
“In the tradition of Sutherland’s white-collar crime, Davies, Leighton
andWyatt have challenged criminology and victimology to rethink traditional
concepts of crime to a harms-based ‘zemiological’ notion of crime
as social harm. The contributors explode traditional victimology into a
kaleidoscope of collectivities whose lives are punctured by an array of
insidious practices in whose intersecting webs we are all enmeshed. Thus,
resonant with green criminology and critical animal studies, our environments
are polluted, including rivers, forests, plants and ecosystems.
Non-human animals are subject to violence in our attempts to harness
them for food.